d to a tree as Lucian threw the lit ma

g sound and went for the closest thing

ow!" He should in his alpha voice. Lucian sc

life. The manor, still on fire, lunged forward with its jagged mouth wide open- Jonas

bad - hot and scalding. But he couldn't focus on it with the sight of his father's body limply dangling

ision and gathered

as another wolf assisted Lucian. They lifted

f the monster burning, and his father's d

bre

he must have forgotten to close the curtains in her bedroom before falling asleep.

sed with severe anxiety and depression,her doctor suggested shep

descending in their remarks or outwardly full of

e doctor Jane insinuated. The first few days were as bad as she expec

iary and opened it to

he wrote. I h

wn. Maybe if she saw it as a learning th

ed out th

ote again, I am be

y on her pen for a mom

ay not t

d the call log for any missed calls. There was only one mes

e home i

room. Scarlett flung her phone to the bed

hit her face hard. She would never get used

her head and flexing her toes so every bone went taut. Sh

ight of early dawn. Scarlett recognized the bridge to the East, t

ow. She had thought her depression had go

ugh she was wet and her skin was freezing,

The colors of winter splashed through her mind: the chill of ice,

r skin and plumed around her mouth. Even though she wa

go for a walk out here, and it was like all the bad stuff just slipped away. She felt nature's soothing effect as the smell of pine tre

ded to buck up, put it all together and stop freaking out over events that had never w

ading faster than the

father left, her mother had suffered depression and was suicidal. Today, she was a successful business woman. It wasn't that long ago that m

t kept thinking positively,

was a deer, and barely glanced over her shoulder. But her

p at minimum cae plummeting at a very dangerous high. Could it be bea